In Rome, in one of the libraries, an undeniably truthful manuscript of great historical value was found. This is the letter that Publius Lentulus, who ruled Judea before Pontius Pilate, wrote to Caesar, the ruler of Rome. It reported on Jesus Christ. The letter is in Latin and was written in the years when Jesus first taught the people.
Content of the letter:
“The governor of the Jew, Publius Lentulus, to the Roman Caesar. I have heard, O Caesar, that you would like to know about a virtuous husband who is named Jesus Christ and whom the people regard as a prophet, as God, and whom His disciples say that he is the Son of God, the Son of the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Truly, Caesar, I hear wonderful things about this husband every day. In short: He commands the dead to rise and heals the sick. He is average in height, in his eyes - He is kind and noble, which is also expressed in his face, because when you see Him, you should reluctantly feel that He must be loved and honored. His hair is the color of finished nuts and from there to the shoulders is a luminous light brown; parting in the middle of the head in the Nazarene custom. The forehead is smooth, the face is wrinkle-free and clean. His beard is hair-colored, curly and since it is not long, it is split in the middle. The look is stern and has the power of a sunbeam; no one has the strength to look closely at them.
When He reproaches, He creates fear, but having just made a reproach, He Himself weeps. Although He is very strict, He is also very kind and sweet. They say that He was never seen laughing, but several times He was seen crying. His hands are beautiful and soulful and expressive. All His speech is considered pleasant and attractive. He is rarely seen in people, but when He appears, He humbly acts among them. His self-control, posture is very noble, He is handsome. Moreover, His mother is the most beautiful woman ever seen in this area.
If you want to see Him, O Caesar, as you once wrote to me, then notify me of this, and I will now send Him to you.
Although He never studied, He still possesses the fullness of Knowledge; He walks barefoot and bare-headed. Many scoff when they see Him from afar. But as soon as they are near Him, they tremble before Him and at the same time admire Him.
They say that in this district, they have never seen such a person. The Jews assure that they have never heard such a teaching as His Teaching is. Many of them say that He is God, others say that He is your enemy, O Caesar!
These Jewish malefactors certainly burden me. It is also said that He never raised disorder or unrest, but always tried to calm everyone.
In any case, I am ready, O Caesar, to carry out each of your orders that you give me in connection with Him."
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Jerusalem, 7 indict, 11 months Publius Lentulus, governor of Judea.
Internet intelligence immediately exposed and argued:
1. Fake. In those days they did not call Jesus, but was simply Yeshua or Jesus, with one "and"
2. What are the proofs? The divinity of Christ was announced only at the 1st Nicene Council in 325, separation from Judaism was also declared there, Jesus does not claim anywhere that he is God, the years of Caesar's life do not coincide at all. So it's pure fake)))
3. Guy Julius Caesar (12 or 13 July 100 BC - 15 March 44 BC) - that's all. Letter to a corpse.
4. In general, no one even thought that Caesar had died by the time of the birth of Christ, almost half a century ago. But this is not all, as Pedevicia tells us: “Publius Lentulus is the name of a Roman senator, to whom a description of the person and an image of the face of Jesus Christ was allegedly sent from Jerusalem from Jerusalem. This letter, circulating among the pious common people of all countries in manuscripts and prints, was first published in the collected works of Anselm of Canterbury, and then reproduced in the Magdeburg centuri. It is recognized as an apocryphal. According to historical sources, the personality of Publius Lentulus is completely unknown: the letter is filled with biblical expressions, which could hardly be spoken by a pagan Roman. It is assumed that this letter to Publius Lentulus is a variation of a similar composition,who converted in Greece in the XIV century and attributed to the pen of the famous church historian Callistus Xanfopulus Nikifor. So this is complete nonsense.
5. Jesus is a modern Church Slavonic transliteration of the Greek form Ιησούς of the Hebrew name ישוע (pronounced Yeshuah), which is a truncation of the name יהושע Yehoshua, consisting of the roots of the words "Yehova" - the name of God in the Old Testament and "Shúa" - salvation. Before the church reform of Patriarch Nikon, the name of Jesus was written and pronounced with one letter "and": "Isus". Patriarch Nikon changed the spelling and pronunciation to "Iesus" in order to bring them closer to the Greek version. The spelling of the name "Jesus" with one "and" remained unchanged in the Ukrainian, Belarusian, Croatian, Ruthenian, Macedonian, Serbian and Bulgarian languages.
6. In the list of procurators of Judea, the name of Publius Lentulus is not mentioned. According to all sources, the predecessor of Pontius Pilate is Valery Hrat. A very dubious letter, in my opinion.
This document was first published in Latin in 1474 in a collection of documents from the library of Anselm of Canterbury (XII century). It was accompanied by an explanation: "During the time of Octavian Caesar, Publius Lentulus, the governor of a part of Judea, the kingdom of Herod, sent a letter to the Roman Senate, which Eutropius cites in his Roman history" [1303]. In the work of Eutropius, a historian of the 4th century, there is no such letter. Moreover, among the Roman governors of Judea there was no Lentulus [1304]. This circumstance, already at that time, raised serious doubts about the authenticity of the "message". It is now generally accepted that this document is a Christian forgery, made in the XIII or even XIV century. At the same time, the reference to Eutropius is due to the wide popularity of his historical work among medieval readers.
The author of the "epistle" conveys his personal impressions of Jesus Christ whom he met in Jerusalem. It should be noted here that by the time of the death of Caesar Augustus in 14 AD. e. (Only modern historians began to call him Octavian) Jesus was still very young and had not yet begun social activities (cf. Luke 3: 1). It should also be noted that the description of Jesus' appearance in the "Epistle of Lentulus" coincides with the image of Christ presented in the "Ecclesiastical History" of the Byzantine monk Nicephorus Callistus (1256-1335). By this time, the so-called. the Byzantine (eastern) portrait of Christ, a bearded, long-haired middle-aged man, ousted the early allegorical depictions of Jesus in the form of a fish, a lamb and a youth-Good Shepherd. “I will describe, - says Nicephorus, - the appearance of our Lord,how it is transmitted to us from antiquity soft curls. His eyebrows were dark and arched, and His eyes seemed to be pouring out of themselves a gentle golden light. They were quite lovely. His nose was prominent; the beard is nice, but not very long. On the contrary, He wore the hair of his head very long, because the scissors never touched them, just as the human hand did not touch them, except for the hand of His Mother when She played with them in His childhood. He was slightly bent over, but His body was well built. His skin was like ripe wheat, and His face, like His Mother's, was oval rather than round, with a slight tinge of blush; but through him dignity, rationality of the soul, meekness and never-breaking peace of mind shone through. In general, He was very much like His Divine and immaculate Mother. "Portraits of Jesus of this type appear already in the Ravenna Church of Apollinarius New (6th century), then widely distributed in the Eastern Orthodox Church and, in turn, begin to influence Western church painting. It was this tradition that served as the source for describing the appearance of Jesus in the "message of Lentulus."
The Latin original is given according to the specified edition of J. Fabricius (p. 301-302); the most successful, in our opinion, translation is given by A. P. Lopukhin (1895).
Lentulus Hierosolumitanorum praeses SRQ Romano S.
Hoc tempore vir apparuit, adhuc vivit, vir praeditus potentia magna, nomen ejus Jesus Christus: hommes eum Prophetiam potentem dicunt, discipuli ejus filium Dei vocant. Mortuos vivificat, aegros ab omnis generis aegritudinibus morbis fanat. Vir est abtae staturae propostionate, conspectus vultus ejus cum severitate, plenus efficacia, ut spectatores amare eum possint, rursus timere. Pili capites ejus vinei colors uscue ad fundamentum aurem, sine radiatione, erecti, a fundamento aurium usque ad humeros consorty ac lucidi, ab humeris deorsum pendentes, bifido vertice dispositi in morem Nazareorum. Frons plana pura, facies ejus fine macula, quam rubor quidam temperatus ornat. Aspectus ejus ingenuus gratus. Nasus os ejus nullo modo reprehensibilia. Barba ejus multa, colore pilorum capitis bifurcata: oculi ejus coerulei extreme lucidi. In reprehendendo objurgando formidabilis, in tocendo exhortando, blandae lingvae amabilis. Gratia miranda vultus, cum gravitate. Vel semel eum ridentem nemo vidit, sed flentem imo. Protracta statura corporis, manus ejus rectae erectae, brachia ejus delectabilia. In locuento ponderans gravis, pareus logvela. Pulcherrimus vultu inter hominis satos.
Lentulus, governor of Jerusalem, to the fathers of the senators and the Roman people [1305].
We have a man with great abilities, by the name of Jesus Christ, appeared and is still alive: people worship Him as a Prophet, and the disciples call Him the Son of God. He raises the dead and heals the sick. He is a man of tall stature and noble appearance; His appearance is important and expressive, so looking at Him, one cannot but love and at the same time not be afraid of Him. His hair is wavy and curly, a little darker and very shiny where it falls over his shoulders. They are divided into two sides according to the custom of the Nazirites. His brow is smooth and wonderfully calm; His face is not wrinkled or stained, and the blush makes His cheeks beautiful. His nose and mouth are perfect. He has a bushy brownish beard of the color of His hair, not long, but split in two. His eyes are bright and seem to have a different color at different times. He is terrible in His threats,calm in His admonitions, A loving and beloved Person, cheerful, but always serious. No one ever saw Him laughing, but they often saw Him cry. His hands and other members of his body are perfect. His speech is even and important, He is humble and meek, the most beautiful of the sons of men.
We know from the Gospels that Jesus was, in modern terms, the leader of a fairly well-known public organization at that time, was persecuted and led a stressful, dangerous life. And now imagine that people who have never participated in any public organizations, have not been noticed at any crowded rallies and demonstrations, in general, such quiet inhabitants, who are accustomed, wearing slippers, to while away the evenings in front of the TV, will take up the interpretation of his statements. Will they, having no similar life experience, be able to recognize among the sayings of Christ scattered throughout the text those of them that relate to the activities of the organization he created? It is highly doubtful. Even having come across them in the Gospel texts, they will not understand their meaning, since they have nothing in their life baggage,even vaguely reminiscent of the experience of Jesus. But it is necessary to interpret, since we have already taken up this matter! And our would-be researchers begin to compare the gospel stories with what first comes to their minds, but anything can come: the impressions of the books read, and the lectures listened to at the university, and TV plots, and even grandmothers favorite fairy tales heard in childhood … In a word, if a biblical researcher has no experience of social activity, at least to some extent similar to that of Jesus, then any associations, even the most ridiculous and wild ones, can arise. And then to one researcher Jesus may seem like a rebel-extremist, to another - a wandering teacher of sophistry, the third - the leader of a gang of homosexuals, the fourth is sure that the Gospels contain not the true thoughts and deeds of Christ,but only invented by the later Christian community, and the fifth will declare that Jesus never existed and, therefore, there is nothing to talk about …